About the Authors

Juhua Zhou

Current address: Institute for Tumor Immunology, Ludong University School of Life Sciences, Yantai, Shandong, PR China

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Prakash Nagarkatti

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Yin Zhong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jay P. Ginsberg

Affiliation William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Narendra P. Singh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jiajia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Mitzi Nagarkatti

Mitzi.Nagarkatti@uscmed.sc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Medical Center, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J. Zhou PN JG MN. Performed the experiments: J. Zhou PN YZ JG NS MN. Analyzed the data: J. Zhou PN JG NS J. Zhang MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Zhou PN YZ JG NS MN. Wrote the manuscript: J. Zhou PN JG NS MN.